The first ever Nokia Android tablet has been announced, and the device happens to be called the ‘Nokia N1′. It’s the first tablet being released under Nokia brand after company’s acquisition to Microsoft, and it looks like a finer version of iPad mini from Apple.

Nokia in a tweet yesterday announced that it would be revealing a new product at the Slush conference in Helsinki, and had teased us with an obscure photo of some kind of a black box. And while many thought that it might be a streaming box, or even a PC, the black box turned out to be the packaging of the Nokia N1. Clever isn’t it?

The N1 is Nokia’s first venture into the tablet arena running Google’s OS. The tablet sports a 7.9-inch display with a display resolution of 2048 x 1536, slickly wrapped up in an anodized aluminum shell, exactly like an iPad.

The buttons design, camera placement – front and rear, speaker grills – all speak the iPad design language. You may even think that the USB connector is actually a Lightning port, but it happens to be the first implementation of the Type-C USB connector. However, if you can get over these similarities, the N1 is actually a finer version of the iPad mini as I mentioned earlier.

The display on the N1 is fully laminated to reduce glare and reflections, furthermore the tablet’s shell depth has been reduced to an impressive 6.9mm making the device weigh in pretty light at 318 grams. The tablet comes in as lighter and thinner to that which it borrowed its design from. The Nokia N1 is powered by an Intel Atom quad-core processor at 2.4GHz, and ships with 2GB of RAM and carries 32GB of on-board storage. The rear shooter is an 8MP unit, while the front-camera comes in at 5MP. The battery on the device is also an impressive 5,300mAh, and should theoretically easily suffice a day’s operation.

On the OS side of things, the N1 will come with Android 5.0 Lollipop right of out of the box, but the best part being, that it’s a completely stock (vanilla) version of Lollipop. However, the device will come loaded with the ‘Z Launcher’ which is Nokia’s own development, allowing users to write out letters on the screen to use as gestures for launching contacts or apps.

The device will go on sale with a retail price of just $249, and with that in mind, it’s clear that the tablet is aiming to go after the iPad mini, while also looking like one at the same time. The Nokia N1 will first launch in China, and is manufactured in partnership with Foxconn, who is licensing the Nokia brand, the Z Launcher and the design itself.

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Actually, the iPhone 6 (on which the iPad is based) is a rip-off of the Nokia Lumia 925. So basically, all Nokia are doing are copying their own design language (which apple copied first).

macLittle

Um…no. A 1st grader can look at a Lumia 925 next to an iPhone 6 and tell you that they do not look similar. That is clearly a case of Nokia going to Foxconn and buying iPad mini body parts and putting their own hardware into it to build an iPad mini on the Android platform.

I think it’s great. I would buy it for $249. I don’t think Apple will be happy about it though.

Ok. You’re probably right because I just read that somewhere (it was on the Internet so it has to be true) but I was too lazy too actually Google the Nokia and look at it. But anyways, if you’re right and those are iPad parts then it really proves how much apple marks up their prices beCause this seems like the quality is great.

statquo112

I think you meant the Lumia 1320, which looks eerily similar to the iPhone 6+ if you don’t look close enough.

Tayo Adewale

Don’t worry about that because 49% of that is going to Apple’s pocket. If Apple is not happy openly for being copied they will be smiling behind the scene for sucking Nokia N1 revenue.

Tayo Adewale

To be an Apple it’s not easy, samsung has a nice way of copying Apple but Lenovo and Nokia forgot to turn the light off when copying Apple.
Well done all of you, Apple paved the way in designing and you all follow the suite in execution.

pat patterson

article forgets to point out: has better atom chipset, more ram (2gb) and 324ppi for 250$… is an absolute steal.

who cares if its ‘copy’ there are hundreds of ipad copies already…

arrticle is pretending like nokia is the first and only company to ‘copy’ a sqaure metal box with touchscreen. LOL

GOBOL

I agree, 64-bit intel atom chipset to be exact!

yomama

Its got exactly the same screen size and resolution as the ipad mini 2 and 3 and I bet they run way better with their fully optimised and less power hogging processer and ram.

Tony

Wait, isn’t the Ipad minin a copy of samsung 7 inch galaxy tablet? how about the IPhone 6 (galaxy s3) how about the IPhone 6 plus (samsung galaxy Note). Get your head out of yor ***, it is not a hat.

http://classictutorials.com Kaushik

and still wait for the performance report 😛

J1mmy1985

I think your the one with his head up his ass those phones you describe look nothing like each other. The point being made is that this tablet is almost identical dimensions with the same screen size and resolution made out of the same material in the same color with every signal button and port in the same place with the same type of speaker grill in (bet you can’t guess) exactly the same place, it is COPIED not just a device in the same category like you describe and I notice all of those devices you claim Apple copied are Samsung LOL that’s irony right there folks!

Xin

It´s not about size sir, it´s about design, so, talking about a h o l e s….. the king is you….

Kevin Dimov

Maybe you are correct, maybe not. Lets wait for performance reports as @kaushik259106:disqus said. Then I will too decide for myself if I will get it. As @disqus_H0UE3pqgAS:disqus said – for that money and if it has great performance, it is an absolute steal.

Martin

Is still Gates CEO of microsoft? fuck.. I thought that microsoft is only copying OS, not the hardware.. Motherfuckers!

Ben Ho

The Nokia N1 bears a striking resemblance to the iPad Mini. It has the same 7.9-inch 2048×1536 screen, the same bezels, the same anodized aluminium unibody chassis, and very similar camera, button, and headphone jack placement. Even the bottom of the N1 looks like an iPad Mini, with two speaker grilles flanking a small, central port.